How does doing more of what matters help teenagers with low mood and depression? And what can we all learn from this, particularly at the moment? Prof Shirley Reynolds speaks to Dr Lucy Maddox.

Show Notes

If you want to know more the following resources might be helpful.

Books

Shirley has written two books about depression in teenagers, one for teens and one for parents:

For parents: Teenage Depression: CBT Guide for Parents https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teenage-Depression-CBT-Guide-Parents/dp/147211454X

For adolescents: Am I Depressed and What Can I Do About It? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Depressed-What-Can-About/dp/1472114531/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/260-4076808-4951665?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1472114531&pd_rd_r=bd1ea151-b4d3-40bc-99bc-583aa3824613&pd_rd_w=xtKq9&pd_rd_wg=CFBxI&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=MFANFKSAD9RE92R6XS65&psc=1&refRID=MFANFKSAD9RE92R6XS65

Websites

BABCP website www.babcp.com

Register of BABCP accredited therapists https://www.cbtregisteruk.com/

These resources about child and adolescent mental health might also be useful

Young Minds https://youngminds.org.uk/

MindEd https://www.minded.org.uk/

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health https://www.acamh.org/

Other resources

Shirley is running a course with Future Learn from 1st week in June about adolescent depression – aimed to help parents and professionals understand and help young people who struggle with low mood: https://www.mooc-list.com/course/understanding-depression-and-low-mood-young-people-futurelearn

Have you seen the BABCP animation about what CBT is? Only 1 minute long and available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRijYOJp5e0

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We're all living through uncertain times at the moment. What does research from CBT tell us about what tends to help people tolerate uncertainty? Dr Lucy Maddox interviews Professor Mark Freeston about what might help.

Show notes

For more on BABCP our website is www.babcp.com

For Mark's research survey follow this link:

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/coronavirus/research/uncertainty/

A preprint of Mark's research paper on coronavirus and uncertainty is available here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340653312_Towards_a_model_of_uncertainty_distress_in_the_context_of_Coronavirus_Covid-19

If you feel like you're struggling here are some resources:

https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/

https://www.samaritans.org/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines/

https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/mental-health-services/how-to-access-mental-health-services/

The register of BABCP accredited CBT therapists is here:

https://www.cbtregisteruk.com/

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Episode edited and produced by Lucy Maddox

Music by Gabriel Stebbing

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Note: This episode was recorded before government guidance on restricting travel due to coronavirus.

We all experience ups and downs in mood, but what happens when the highs are so high and the lows are so low that it really interferes with your life? In this episode we hear from Cate Catmore and Professor Steven Jones about CBT for bipolar disorder.

Show notes

For more resources check out these links below.

Books

Coping with bipolar disorder by Steve Jones, Peter Haywood and Dominic Lam

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coping-Bipolar-Disorder-CBT-Informed-Depression-ebook/dp/B07ZWQ877T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=coping+with+bipolar+disorder&qid=1585237730&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Overcoming Mood Swings by Jan Scott

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GUBILQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Online resources

NICE guidelines on bipolar are summarised here

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg185

Cate spoke about mindfulness. You can hear more about mindfulness-based cognitive therapies here

https://letstalkaboutcbt.libsyn.com/lets-talk-about-cbt-mindfulness-based-therapies

This BPS report is called Understanding Bipolar Disorder

https://shop.bps.org.uk/understanding-bipolar-disorder.html

Recovery toolkit for friends and relatives of someone with bipolar disorder based on research at Lancaster University

https://reacttoolkit.uk/

Guardian article on CBT for bipolar disorder by Lucy from a few years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2016/feb/08/nice-critique-a-call-for-more-research-not-an-excuse-for-less-treatment-psychotherapy-cbt

If you’d like to read more academic journal articles this range of papers about bipolar disorder has been made free until 30th April 2020 from the BABCP journals

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-and-cognitive-psychotherapy/bipolar-articles-from-bcp-and-tcbt

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This episode was produced by Lucy Maddox.

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This is an understandably stressful time and it's normal to feel worried. What can we learn from CBT for health anxiety that might help us with feelings of anxiety during the pandemic? In this short bonus episode, Dr Lucy Maddox interviews Dr Jo Daniels from Bath University, about things we know are likely to help.

Show Notes

Read an article by Dr Jo Daniels on how to stop anxiety about coronavirus spiralling out of control here: https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-how-to-stop-the-anxiety-spiralling-out-of-control-133166

Another article about panic here: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/truth-about-panic

And this about how it's normal to feel worried: https://www.ft.com/content/d6c65a50-6395-11ea-abcc-910c5b38d9ed

BBC piece on protecting your mental health at this time:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51873799

BABCP: www.babcp.com

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Imagine being asked to give up the most effective strategy you have for coping with stressful situations... this is often what it can feel like to people trying to give up self-harm.

In this episode, Dr Lucy Maddox talks to Jane, who first used self-harm when she was 14, and Dr Lucy Taylor, who works with young people to try to overcome self-harm.

This episode contains discussion about self-harm and reference to suicide.

Show Notes

Books

Cutting Down by Lucy Taylor, Mima Simic, & Ulrike Schmidt

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cutting-Down-workbook-treating-self-harm/dp/0415624533

Websites

www.cbtregister.uk for a list of BABCP accredited therapists

https://youngminds.org.uk/ for resources for parents and children about self harm

https://www.minded.org.uk/ for resources on child and adolescent mental health and development

www.babcp.com for more CBT resources

You can also listen to our podcast on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, or DBT, for more on a different approach to self harming.

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Striving for achievement has got to be a good thing, right? But what if it starts to get in the way of our happiness? What if the standards we hold ourselves to are unattainable or unrealistic? What if we feel like we'll never measure up?

In this episode, Sam and Professor Roz Shafran speak to Dr Lucy Maddox about CBT for clinical perfectionism - what it is, what it's not, and how it can be useful.

Show Notes

For more information here are some resources.

Books

This is Roz's book on Overcoming Perfectionism

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Perfectionism-scientifically-behavioural-techniques/dp/1845297423

Or for a shorter booklet this is also written by Roz and published by the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre

https://www.octc.co.uk/product/booklets/changing-perfectionism-2

Other Reading

This is a short article on clinical perfectionism by Roz and colleagues

https://nopanic.org.uk/perfectionism/

For some free ACT resources from Dr Russ Harris check out his website (Sam talked about ACT)

https://thehappinesstrap.com/free-resources/

The bullseye worksheet in these resources is the 4 quadrant image that Sam talks about:

https://thehappinesstrap.com/upimages/The_Complete_Happiness_Trap_Worksheets.pdf

The clinical perfectionism questionnaire is on p39 of this article - it is 12 items long and gives you an idea of the sorts of problems that clinical perfectionism can exacerbate. If you are worried speak to your GP:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259530421_The_Clinical_Perfectionism_Questionnaire_Further_evidence_for_two_factors_capturing_perfectionistic_strivings_and_concerns

Some worksheets are available here on clinical perfectionism

https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Perfectionism

Podcasts

Check out other podcast episodes on ACT

https://letstalkaboutcbt.libsyn.com/lets-talk-about-cbt-act-episode

And compassion focused therapy

http://letstalkaboutcbt.libsyn.com/lets-talk-about-cbt-compassion-focussed-therapy-episode-0

Websites

For BABCP accredited therapists visit www.cbtregister.co.uk

For BABCP visit www.babcp.com

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How can a talking therapy help with a problem that feels as physical as chronic fatigue syndrome?

Ben Adams talks to Dr Lucy Maddox about overcoming his initial scepticism about CBT and why he's glad he did. Professor Trudie Chalder explains the ideas that cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome is based on.

Show notes

More information is in the the links and books below.

Websites

For more about BABCP check out: www.babcp.com

To find an accredited therapist: http://cbtregisteruk.com

NHS Webpage about treatments for CFS:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs/treatment/

Books

Overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Mary Burgess and Trudie Chalder

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How do you talk about something in therapy when all you want to do is avoid thinking about it? And why might it help to be able to tackle it?

Nick Gilbert talks to Dr Lucy Maddox about how he sought help for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and his therapist, Dr Jen Wild, explains the theory behind the treatment, and dispels some myths about what it's like.

This show includes reference to suicide.

Show Notes

Some more sources of information are listed below.

Websites

For more about BABCP check out: www.babcp.com

To find an accredited therapist: http://cbtregisteruk.com

NHS Website about treatments for PTSD are described here:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/treatment/

Support for veterans can be found here:

https://www.combatstress.org.uk/

Books

Overcoming Traumatic Stress by Claudia Herbert

Trauma is Really Strange by Steve Haines

Jen has a book coming out soon too - watch this space for details.

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